Gardening Philosophy for Everyone: Cultivating Wisdom

Author:

Dan O’Brien (editor)

Publisher:

Wiley–Blackwell

Publication Date:

2010

ISBN:

978–1–444–33021–2

Paper, 249 pp., $19.95

Editor Dan O’Brien has selected a series of essays from various writers whose works direct attention to the connection between philosophy and the garden. Some tell how gardens have historically related perspectives of a period. The text is divided into several parts: the first relates how gardens and gardening promote moral character; the second reports on the connections of gardens as displays of power and the third, to a discussion of garden aesthetics. The final sections contain thoughts on metaphysics and the importance of the garden in creating “emotional well-being.”